Golden State Warriors

[THE DESTROYER]

i just hope that Kevin Durant would be a great help for Warriors

[J121212]

Weak move on kd''s part... dubs will be fun to watch tho

[bughaw1]

Ano balak nila, 82-0? Tapos matatalo lang sa finals. Sana mag pacing naman next season. Sayang eh....champion na naging bato pa.

[reefpuppies1234]

Kuha ng defensive man, wera kay thompson, draymond at igodala. Madalas si KD chill sa depensa, oo may mga defensive highlights siya pero bihira naman. Si steph naman abangers sa steal, hindi consistent na on-ball defender ( tignan niyo kinain ni kyrie). Si Bogut malaking bagay nung finals dahil may intimidation factor kay lebron pag sumasaksak. Panoorin niyo lahat ng score ni lebron bago nainjure si bogut, karamihan ng saksak ni lebron wala si Bogut. Kasi nga walang intimidation factor sa loob kahit pa sabihin mong walang score o konti lang minutes ni bogut, malakas yon tandaan niyo nung nasa bucks dati yan kasama si jennings at reed ang lakas ng lineup nila bago natrade si bogut at draft pick(klay thompson) para kay ellis. Binoo pa yang trade na yan, tignan niyo ngayon HAHA

[*kalel*]

I think pachulia will replace bogut...

[leaderofthebibes]

Pachulia is so offensive minded, can never replace defensive stopper like bogut. Defense is the name of the name nowadays as what you saw in the finals, no one knew anyone can stop the warriors, but from the looks of it, they were stopped by the cavs, as well as the thunder(Chokers). Though david west is a defensive man, he's too old and slow, spurs was not able to utilize him, knowing pops who develops players as well as uses players well, david west is aged.

[darksoulriver]

goodluck to GSW for acquiring KD and many more hehehe

 

Will this new pieces be effective next season...

 

Well malamang lalong dadami ang bandwagoneers ng WARRIORS

Edited July 19, 2016 by darksoulriver

[Guiness]

i for one am not a bandwagon fan and i stick with my team even if they are at their lowest and just plain suck. but at least with all the moves they've made i think they can get back to the postseason hoping that the players they signed (rose, noah, lee, jennings etc.) and that includes melo, be healthy enough to make it through the 82 game season.

 

but enough about that, since this is the warriors thread. i will just mention what i think the warriors are lacking right now. since Kevin Durant decided to sign with the Warriors the team itself lost a lot of good pieces as what Steph Curry mentioned that they "gave up a lot" to get Kevin Durant. Sure the starting 5 looks real solid on paper with Durant joining an already great team with Curry, Thompson and Green. But they also lost, Bogut, Ezeli, Speights, Barbosa, Barnes among the players who were considered key contributors on the team to free agency and trades in order to make room for the salary cap to sign Durant.

 

That's the thing with the NBA you can't have your cake and eat it too all the time and in this case by signing a marquee free agent in Durant, you had to give up a lot of good role players for it.

 

First off, they don't have a legit big. Since losing Bogut and Ezeli. They lost some interior defense by losing those guys and even if they signed Zaza Pachulia to fill that hole, it won't replace Bogut. They also lost Speights who was able to stretch the floor with his outside shooting.

 

The replacements were, Pachulia, West, and Varejao. Pachulia is not considered a rim protector and the inside D will be difficult to cover even if you have Draymond Green there, he won't always be there to cover all the holes in the D. and the other big they signed is Anderson Varejao, a good backup but limited. They signed David West but West's good days are really behind him as he's turning 36 this August and he's on the back end of his career. Also he isn't that great of a defensive player as he's more of a semi stretch 4 with a mid range shot but like i said his best days are really behind him.

 

One of their strengths, the depth of their bench, will have their bad days with the departure of Barnes, Barbosa and Brandon Rush, even if they were able to keep Livingston and Iguodala, who they chose to keep by the way. You will see more playing time for their young guys like Mcadoo and Ian Clark and maybe Kevon Looney but it will take time for these guys to get used to their new roles.

 

I don't see this team breaking any historical records in terms of wins and losses since i think they learned last season that winning the 73 games wasn't all its cracked up to be since they didn't win the NBA championship. They will be smarter in resting their guys during key stretches of the season to keep them fresh for the playoffs.

 

They will have Chemistry issues as the ball won't go to Steph or Klay all the time since they will have to get the ball to Durant as well. plus the lost of bench depth will have an effect. You have to also take into account that one or 2 injuries to their key players will derail their chances.

 

But it will be interesting to see, as social media is painting them as Villains and people will want to root for them to lose since they got the label of new Super Team replacing the Miami Heat from years back.

[Guiness]

Which Warrior will become Golden State's version of Chris Bosh?

LAS VEGAS -- Adding Kevin Durant to the Warriors will reduce the roles of Golden State's incumbent stars. Naturally, the question becomes who bears the brunt of that -- who must make the most difficult sacrifice on a team that's sure to score so easily?

Put another way: Who will be Golden State's Chris Bosh?

 

Back in 2010, when Bosh and LeBron James joined Dwyane Wade to form the Miami Heat juggernaut, it was Bosh -- a superstar in his own right -- who saw a transition from franchise player to supporting actor. It was a journey that proved tougher than he imagined.

In 2014, Bosh caused a stir with his words of warning for Kevin Love after the former Minnesota Timberwolves star became the final piece of the Cleveland Cavaliers' Big Three:

 

"It's going to be very difficult for [Love]. Even if I was in his corner and I was able to tell him what to expect and what to do, it still doesn't make any difference. It's extremely difficult and extremely frustrating. He's going to have to deal with it."

 

Bosh received criticism for that warning but was validated when Love struggled to grapple with rarely grasping the rock. It's not a natural thing for an All-Star to subsist on the periphery of a championship-level offense.

 

Among Golden State's new Big Four, Klay Thompson's name keeps coming up when you pose this question to people around the league and inside the Warriors organization. He's the one who already mostly plays off the ball. He already largely makes do with whatever shots come his way within the flow of the offense.

 

The emergence of Draymond Green as a facilitator pushed Thompson away from the action, reducing his unassisted opportunities. Thompson received praise for accepting that role when other All-Stars might chafe at being underused. What's great about Klay Thompson is that he's good with being Klay Thompson.

 

What happens to Thompson when former MVP and four-time scoring champ Kevin Durant is the guy acting as Thompson?

 

What's interesting in this new superteam construction is how Thompson has initially welcomed -- even lobbied for -- this change. Amusingly, in his Hamptons pitch to Durant, Thompson mentioned how many open shots he'd get from Durant's presence before sheepishly shifting to how Durant would also benefit from the arrangement. Everyone, including Durant, had a good laugh at the quick pivot to getting back on message.

 

With Durant's arrival, Thompson is anticipating a positive trade-off: He will get fewer shots, but those shots will be blissfully unguarded. When asked if he'd rather have more shots or get fewer shots that all happened to be wide open, Thompson replied: "Definitely open shots, you know? It's one thing to get shots, but it's easier to be more efficient when you're getting open looks. So I definitely go with the latter."

 

At Team USA practice, on the subject of sacrificing his role on the Warriors, Thompson said: "I know how good I am in this league. I'm not going to judge my performance off numbers or anything. If we get wins, it really doesn't matter, man. It's all good."

On whether he might get less attention for his exploits, Thompson said: "I feel like I get enough attention, man, [by] showing people how good I am. [Getting less attention] doesn't matter to me."

 

Thompson has clearly demonstrated that he cares not for attention. He's the rare NBA player who tries to quickly escape interviews after his biggest scoring performances. As Golden State's PR czar Raymond Ridder frequently says of Thompson, "If he never did another interview again, he'd be happy."

 

Though there are certain trappings of NBA life Thompson enjoys, fame itself rankles. He finds it annoying when, say, TMZ breathlessly covers him leaving a scene with multiple women.

 

"One of those girls was my cousin, man," Thompson said before a game in Atlanta, with typical shrugging exasperation.

If this new situation further obscures his impact to prying eyes, so much the better. Thompson prefers his universe reduced to some combination of "basketball, dog and occasional fun."

 

He might actually mean it when stating the hoary NBA cliché that his primary motivation is, "Just to get rings, man."

When asked in Vegas of the memories that fuel him, Thompson said, "I felt that feeling of winning before and I was so close again. The pain of losing is way worse than that of winning. So I just want to keep winning, man. And we're set up hopefully not just for this year but for years after to do it, and that's what really motivates me."

 

That isn't to say that Thompson is averse to leaving a legacy. He just feels he's accomplished enough individually to prioritize collective accomplishments.

 

On when his priorities shifted, Thompson said, "It was last year in the Finals. I had a game where I had five points and we still won. No one ever talks about that to me at least. They just talk about how great a year we had. Steve Kerr helped me a lot with that. He said: 'Klay, it doesn't matter how many points you're going to score. No one's going to remember 20 years down the line what you did in Game 3, 4, 5 unless it was something crazy. But they'll remember that team that brought that Bay Area championship back for the first time in 40 years."

 

On this new venture, Thompson isn't thinking about Bosh, but instead at someone who played the same position.

"I look at a guy like Manu Ginobili who came off the bench almost his entire career," Thompson said. "Never averaged more than 20 points a game, but he's a four-time champion, you know? He could have easily been on another team and averaged 25 a game, but he sacrificed to win, and that's what I expect to do next year. I don't care about averaging 25 or even 20. I just want to finish it out and get back to the Finals and enjoy that ride."

[*kalel*]

no one... because there is strength in numbers

[Mr.TwoTimerss]

warior

[John Puruntong]

go warriors

[lonelyhobo]

Hands down favorites for 2017.

[banana888]

Sure favorites to win, draymond though daming kalokohan )

[Guiness]

Draymond Green apologizes for penis picture, says he pushed wrong button

HOUSTON -- Golden State Warriors and U.S. Olympic team forward Draymond Green apologized for posting a picture of his penis on social media.

 

The picture was posted for about 10 minutes Sunday afternoon on Snapchat, then was taken down.

"I apologize for the situation. It's clearly not what I was trying to do," he said.

 

"I kinda hit the wrong button and it sucks. It was meant to be private. We're all one click away from placing something in the wrong place and I suffered from that this morning."

- Draymond Green

 

Green said he knew instantly he made a mistake and took the photo down.

 

"It was a situation where it was meant to be a private message," Green said. "I kinda hit the wrong button and it sucks. It was meant to be private. We're all one click away from placing something in the wrong place, and I suffered from that this morning."

 

Green made his comments prior to Team USA's practice at the Toyota Center.

Immediately after the picture was removed, Green had tweeted:

 

 

Earlier in July, Green reached a plea agreement that will allow him to avoid jail time and reduced the charges he faced for allegedly slapping a Michigan State University football player and for a noise violation.

 

Green will pay a $500 fine and a $60 restitution fee for the incident. He was arrested July 10 in East Lansing, Michigan, after police saw him slap MSU player Jermaine Edmondson, who has since been released from MSU's team to play elsewhere. Edmondson's release was not related to the incident with Green, MSU officials said.

 

In June, Green was suspended for a game during the NBA Finals for hitting LeBron James in the groin.

"I'm in a great position in my life," Green said Sunday. "There's so many things going on in my world for me to sit and complain, 'I can't catch a break.' I'm living my dream.

 

"To say I can't catch a break I think that's disrespectful for everybody," he added. "How many people get to live their dreams? I'm not going to sit here and throw myself a pity party and say I can't catch a break. I'm fine. I get to joke around with these guys all day and get to do what I love for my country. I'm fine. I'm fine."

Edited August 1, 2016 by hahnz